Views Preview: Columnist 'Wishes for Katrina'

At a time when so many are writing anniversary stories looking back on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Chicago Tribune columnist Kristen McQueary wrote a column under the headline "In Chicago, Wishing for a Hurricane Katrina."

That headline was changed after readers took great offense to McQueary's assertion that the city of Chicago needs a storm the size and strength of Katrina to reset the city's mounting debt, it's struggling schools and it's political infighting.

NBC Universal is investing $200 million in BuzzFeed to support and expand its video and documentary programming offerings. Meanwhile, Fusion announces it will create a virtual reality unit. Do these ventures signal a marriage between old and new media?

The Children's Television Workshop and HBO have entered into an agreement that will move Sesame Street to the premium cable network starting this season. Nine months after new episodes run on HBO, they'll repeat on PBS. This is leading many to question how the program -- which has often been credited with providing early-childhood education to children from low-income families -- will continue to carry out that purpose.

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Emotions are running high 10 years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on New Orleans, so what was a Chicago Tribune columnist thinking when she wrote that she prayed for a storm like Katrina to wipe out Chicago? Also, how Pro-Publica and the New York Times worked together to determine a special relationship between AT&T and the National Security Agency, Sesame Street’s move to HBO and more. From the Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Mike McKean: Views of the News.